China on Saturday denounced the U.S. government's decision to sell arms worth of about 6.5 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the Chinese government and people firmly opposed this action which seriously damaged China's interests

Xia Zhengnong, former secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and a member of the CPC Central Advisory Committee, died at age 105 Saturday. An official statement said he died of illness at 11:16

China's State Council, or the Cabinet, has decided to further extend a program that involves special funds for infrastructure and other projects in three particularly arid and poor areas in the country's remote northwest. While extending the program from 2009

The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) celebrated on Saturday evening the 59th anniversary of the founding of the New China, lending its unswerving support to China's pursuit of socialism. Reviewing China's development since 1949, when the People's Republic of

The ongoing global financial turbulence will have a limited impact on China's banks and financial system in the short run, according to officials and experts. "We feel China's financial system and its banks are, to the chaos developed in the

The international community has to pay greater attention to the challenges facing the rapidly growing civil nuclear projects, Chen Qiufa, director of Chinese Atomic Energy Agency, said in a recent interview with Xinhua. The Chinese official, who was here for

China's Defense Ministry on Saturday expressed strong indignation and firm objection to the U.S. government's decision to sell arms worth of about 6.5 billion U.S. dollars to Taiwan. Hu Changming, Ministry of Defense spokesman, said the relations between the Chinese

China, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and UN Development Program (UNDP) signed an agreement Saturday to construct the Palestinian Foreign Ministry's new office building. PNA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas attended the ceremony held in the West Bank city of Ramallah, and

Five foreign sailors who have been missing since their vessel sank on Monday in the East China Sea off the eastern Zhejiang Province were feared dead, despite continuing rescue operations on Saturday. Li Hua, vice director of the Wenzhou Maritime

The latest sample test detected no melamine in newly supplied liquid milk on China's market, the country's quality watchdog said Saturday. Samples of 609 batches of liquid milk from 27 cities across China were found free of melamine, said the

China's Ministry of Agriculture said Saturday it had made an emergency rescue plan with the Ministry of Finance to give special subsidies to the country's dairy farmers, who have suffered from shrinking demand after the tainted milk scandal. Fewer dairy

Highway, rail and flight services have totally resumed in Hainan on Sunday as tropical storm Higos gradually weakened and left this southernmost island province of China, local authorities said. Higos, the 17 tropical storm of the year, downgraded to a

Eric Wang pops into a Starbucks near his office in Beijing's central business district. Wearing a neat dark blue suit with a gold-colored tie, he picks up a cup of cappuccino in his roughened hand, and sips. "It's really a

Pakistan's President Zardari says India has never been a threat to Pakistan, and describes militants in Kashmir as terrorists.

British brigadier downgrades Afghan aims

A second leader of mass anti-government protests in Bangkok is arrested by Thai police.

Three women and three children die when a suicide bomber detonates his explosives during a US raid, officials say.

The latest PSFK Conference is coming to Singapore this Friday (October 10), bringing more creatives together than you can shake a stick at — Mark Dytham is even giving a talk!PSFK's Piers was even kind enough to invite me as

My friend Ian — editor of Tokyolife — sends me a few pics from from the launch party for his latest book, which covers all things Bape. It took place at the Colette store in Paris yesterday. The blue edition

I don't know what the hell is being said, but Jesper — our main man in Sweden — sends me a link to the Swedish TV series Big in Japan (Stor i Japan) in which, according to Jesper, "two Swedish